Smaller portions of cheese, less chocolate in boxes, smaller bottles of juice… Faced with rising raw material and production ...

Cash transfers offer governments a quick, visible response to rising inequality, but they risk masking deeper distortions. As fiscal pressures mount, essential services suffer. To address wide gaps ...

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

Creative inventions and ideas that show next-level thinking. Terror charge filed in Jan. 6 case I asked 3 restaurant pros to name the most annoying thing diners do ...

The federal-government shutdown marked a bleak milestone Wednesday when it entered its 36th day, officially surpassing the record for the longest shutdown in U.S. history. But as federal workers ...

Our universe may be hiding extra dimensions just beyond the reach of current experiments — and they could be the key to unlocking two of the most stubborn mysteries in physics. A new theoretical study ...

When assessing a Pittsburgh Pirates offense that ranked last in the major leagues in home runs, runs scored, RBIs, slugging percentage and OPS, general manager Ben Cherington didn’t mince words.

Neural networks are computing systems designed to mimic both the structure and function of the human brain. Caltech researchers have been developing a neural network made out of strands of DNA instead ...

Mike Castellano is professor of agronomy at Iowa State University and leads the Iowa Nitrogen Initiative. Matt Helmers is professor agricultural and biosystems engineering and director of the Iowa ...

New York City knows it has a waste management problem. The average city household generated 1,899 pounds of trash in 2023. Only around 17 percent of the city’s curbside waste is recycled, despite ...

Legislators love misnomers. The USA PATRIOT Act "increased patriotism" by reducing domestic freedoms. The Inflation Reduction Act increased inflation before our eyes. And since its introduction in ...